[Bubba Ho-Tep]

As usual for the Lost Causers, you conveniently leave out the next part of that Lincoln quote, the part that Douglas was trying to hammer him with throughout the debates...

I agree with Judge Douglas he [the Negro] is not my equal in many respects certainly not in color — perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments; but in the right to eat the bread without leave of anybody else which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every other man.”

Now, you might cal that racist by today's standards, but by the standards of the 1850s, it was revolutionarily racially egalitarian.

[bluecollarman]

not my equal in many respects certainly not in color — perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments; but in the right to eat the bread ....”

Sounds more like a statement from PETA on the rights of Mountain Lions and Wolves. Not on a member of the HUMAN race.